I like people alot more ever since I moved out of the U.S., but I find that when I'm in the States to visit I don't speak to strangers and generally expect the worse of them and don't like dealing with anyone I don't know. I like to be pleasant and friendly with people but when it is shunned or even derided I get pissed, so now I don't try.
If I meet someone who proves to be genuinely pleasant I am shocked and am quite drawn to them but this is a cold world we live in these days and that is a rare find.
That's pretty much how I feel.
When I was younger, I was a happy person and trusted people before I knew them. But life has taught me that it's hard to be that type of person these days because people don't believe you're for real or they wanna take advantage of what looks like naivete. Now I'm much cooler towards strangers or people I just met because I expect them to either be a typical douchebag or have ulterior motives.
Maybe a lot of that has to do with living in L.A....or maybe it's the U.S. in general. I think what I need to do is go the Timothy Ferriss route and get the hell outta here to experience other cultures. Might do me a whole lot of good.